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Featured Writers
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Featured Columns
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Apr. 18, 2008
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FEAR STRIKES OUTby Charlie Finch Boycott the Olympics, and boycott contemporary Chinese art.
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Apr. 8, 2008
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THE THREAT OF LOVEby Charlie Finch Walter Robinson puts the error back in eros.
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Apr. 4, 2008
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WHITE MEN CAN’T PAINT!
by Charlie Finch Morgan Neville’s new film, The Cool School, on the early Los Angeles art scene.
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Mar. 31, 2008
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HANGING AT THE HORTS’by Charlie Finch Talk of Marlene Dumas, Richard Tuttle and Jimmy Page
at Susan and Michael Hort’s private view during Armory weekend.
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Mar. 26, 2008
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A BROWN WORLDby Charlie Finch Painter Deborah Brown captures natural New York.
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Mar. 21, 2008
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CHEERS!by Charlie Finch A few words occasioned by Eduardo Sarabia’s Salon Aleman at the Park Avenue Armory.
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Mar. 19, 2008
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BETWITCHEDby Charlie Finch New psychedelic allegories from Lane Twitchell.
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Mar. 18, 2008
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NOT SO WEI OUTby Charlie Finch Ai Weiwei’s Descending Light at Mary Boone Gallery.
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Mar. 17, 2008
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STARWALKERSby Charlie Finch Naked wonder from Richard Dupont at Lever House.
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Mar. 14, 2008
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MY DINNER WITH SIMONby Charlie Finch Veteran curator Simon Watson and the contemporary art banquet.
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Mar. 11, 2008
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DOOBY DOOBY DUBAIby Charlie Finch A modest proposal for art in the Middle East.
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Mar. 4, 2008
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BIENNIAL FOR ONEby Charlie Finch Go to Facebook for your own Whitbash 2008.
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Feb. 27, 2008
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GRIDLOCKby Charlie Finch "Color Chart" at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Feb. 26, 2008
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CHILDHOOD’S ENDby Charlie Finch Anna Craycroft, orphans and hope, and Obama as Manchild.
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Feb. 22, 2008
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THE LAST PICTURE SHOWby Charlie Finch Painter Chris Martin provides Chelsea with its final triumph.
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Feb. 22, 2008
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DR. STRANGEby Charlie Finch Baird Jones, 1954-2008.
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Feb. 20, 2008
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GET SMARTby Charlie Finch "Design and the Elastic Mind" at MoMA.
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Feb. 19, 2008
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LOVE FOR SALE
by Charlie Finch Peeking at the market for Miroslav Tichy.
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Feb. 14, 2008
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BROAD MINDEDby Charlie Finch Swaping curatorial souls for the favors of the wealthy.
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Feb. 11, 2008
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THE WAY IT WASby Charlie Finch The modest beginnings of legendary dealer Richard Bellamy.
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Feb. 7, 2008
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FATHERS AND SONS
by Charlie Finch At the Museum of Biblical Art, "The Art of Forgiveness: Images of the Prodigal Son."
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Feb. 6, 2008
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LET THEM EAT WATERby Charlie Finch Olafur Eliasson’s "Waterfalls" is just for the good of New Yorkers.
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Feb. 4, 2008
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A COSMIC JOKE
by Charlie Finch Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty was designed to be passive.
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Jan. 28, 2008
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CRITICAL MASSby Charlie Finch The keys to the art-critical kingdom.
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Jan. 22, 2008
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LATE BLOOMERby Charlie Finch Nobuhiro Ishihara’s symbolic creatures.
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Jan. 18, 2008
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CUT AND PASTEby Charlie Finch "Fit to Print" at Gagosian Gallery in New York.
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Jan. 17, 2008
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REPETITIVE STRESS
by Charlie Finch Zhang Peili provides a chilling look at the world’s oldest civiliation.
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Jan. 14, 2008
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PENNMANSHIPby Charlie Finch Steely esthetic asceticism from Irving Penn.
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Jan. 9, 2008
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NAVAL GAZINGby Charlie Finch Julian Schnabel’s new "Navigation Drawings."
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Dec. 12, 2007
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CRAP ON CRAPby Charlie Finch Lucian Freud’s inferior art.
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Dec. 3, 2007
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WEEKDAY UPDATEby Charlie Finch A single masterpiece on view in New York’s Chelsea art district.
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Nov. 28, 2007
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WATTS UP
by Charlie Finch Sober symbolism in new paintings by Ouattara Watts.
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Nov. 26, 2007
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SPECTACULAR SHOWby Charlie Finch Symbols of transformation from Indian artist Bharti Kher.
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Nov. 12, 2007
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DUPED!by Charlie Finch New homonculi from cybersculptor Richard Dupont.
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Nov. 2, 2007
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BLACK BOXby Charlie Finch Douglas Gordon’s new burnt-Warhol-on-mirror works.
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Nov. 1, 2007
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A LOST OPPORTUNITYby Charlie Finch Martin Puryear at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Oct. 25, 2007
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A SHOEBOX SHOWby Charlie Finch Park Avenue Bank hosts a show of works by 20th-century women artists.
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Oct. 18, 2007
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CHINA DOLLARSby Charlie Finch What’s behind the boom in Chinese contemporary?
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Oct. 16, 2007
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POPULAR PAINTINGSby Charlie Finch "XXL: Size Matters" at the Hudson Valley Center.
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Oct. 12, 2007
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ART ABOUT LIFEby Charlie Finch Lisa Yuskavage versus death.
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Oct. 10, 2007
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ART INFLAMESby Charlie Finch Vandalizing Andres Serrano in Sweden.
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Oct. 5, 2007
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VOLUNTEER SLAVERYby Charlie Finch Kara Walker and the injection of sex into horror.
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Sept. 28, 2007
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PRINCE CHARMINGby Charlie Finch Richard Prince, market Leviathan.
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Sept. 27, 2007
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GOODBYE GLENNby Charlie Finch Hello Halbreich -- staff changes at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Sept. 26, 2007
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OLD SCHOOL
by Charlie Finch André Emmerich, 1924-2007
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Sept. 25, 2007
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LOOKINGby Charlie Finch When the eye is not invited in.
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Sept. 21, 2007
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FRANKINSCENSEby Charlie Finch Natalie Frank’s new paintings are both disturbing and entrancing.
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Sept. 19, 2007
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THE TALENT
by Charlie Finch Hollywood stars and art stars, both dim.
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Sept. 12, 2007
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MIXED MESSAGESby Charlie Finch Marian Goodman Gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary.
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Sept. 7, 2007
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DARKNESS VISIBLEby Charlie Finch On Lisa Ruyter: One Million Postcards.
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Sept. 5, 2007
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The return of midcareerby Charlie Finch A glance at the contemporary gallery offerings in New York this fall.
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Aug. 23, 2007
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ART OPPORTUNITIESby Charlie Finch A change in market values means a change in art values.
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Aug. 13, 2007
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JUST BRUCEby Charlie Finch Bruce Wolmer, 1948-2007, RIP.
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Aug. 6, 2007
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LIQUID SKIESby Charlie Finch Will the hedge fund crisis sink the art market?
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July 30, 2007
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A BIZARRE COLLECTORby Charlie Finch A visit to Kykuit, the estate of the now-forgotten Nelson Rockefeller.
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July 23, 2007
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THEREMYby Charlie Finch Remembering Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.
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July 12, 2007
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ORWELL ON DALÍby Charlie Finch Is artistic freedom morally neutral?
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July 7, 2007
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FORM THINGby Charlie Finch The lesser offerings are the thing at Storm King Art Center.
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June 27, 2007
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STINGELESEby Charlie Finch Rudolf Stingel’s graffiti art at the Whitney Museum.
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June 18, 2007
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SIMPLE THINGSby Charlie Finch Seeking small moments of mildly enlightened distinction.
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June 4, 2007
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JERSEY TRANSITby Charlie Finch If you ride Jersey Transit, you don’t need Richard Serra.
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May 17, 2007
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REMEMBERING JONATHANby Charlie Finch A memorial for art scribe and Asia hand Jonathan Napack.
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May 4, 2007
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MURAKAMI AND THE MURPHYSby Charlie Finch Parallel manifestations of Sara and Gerald Murphy and Takashi Murakami.
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Apr. 26, 2007
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PRINCE FEIGENby Charlie Finch The quattrocento meets Ab Ex in "Sublime Convergence" at Richard L. Feigen & Co.
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Apr. 18, 2007
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BITS AND PIECESby Charlie Finch Rummaging through old Manhattan with photographer Kevin Landers.
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Apr. 9, 2007
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PECULIAR PEARLSby Charlie Finch Dead calm in Philip Pearlstein’s paintings.
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Mar. 27, 2007
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RADICAL ETHIOPIAby Charlie Finch The African Christ in Ethiopian art.
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Mar. 22, 2007
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SPECIAL OPSby Charlie Finch Reticent retinal art, and more, on Madison Avenue.
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Mar. 15, 2007
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SPRING OASIS
by Charlie Finch The Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden.
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Mar. 7, 2007
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STUBBED
by Charlie Finch George Stubbs is as much an ironist as an avatar of the sublime.
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Mar. 5, 2007
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CINDERELLA
by Charlie Finch Loving Cindy Sherman as she swans into middle age.
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Feb. 21, 2007
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LOVE IN THE RUINS
by Charlie Finch Gordon Matta-Clark at the Whitney Museum.
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Feb. 12, 2007
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DILL VERSUS PRINCE
by Charlie Finch Lesley Dill and Richard Prince at the Neuberger Museum.
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Feb. 9, 2007
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THE GILDED CAGE
by Charlie Finch Imagining the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
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Jan. 10, 2007
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TWO THIEVES
by Charlie Finch The bohemian and the ubercollector.
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Jan. 2, 2007
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THE WAY WE WERE
by Charlie Finch Remembering art as a part of life.
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Dec. 14, 2006
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THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO
by Charlie Finch Photographer Alix Smith, plus contemporary art, at the new Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan.
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Dec. 6, 2006
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TANIGUCHI’S REVENGE
by Charlie Finch The Museum of Modern Art unveils its new Education Building.
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Nov. 14, 2006
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SEDUCED AND ABANDONED
by Charlie Finch
Who says New York needs a museum of contemporary art?
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Oct. 19, 2006
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MISSION CREEP
by Charlie Finch
The new catchword for museoexecs.
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Oct. 12, 2006
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ONE GOOD PRINT
by Charlie Finch
Prints and editions from Europe at MoMA.
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Sept. 11, 2006
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POOLS OF WONDER
by Charlie Finch
Alchemy and a hint of claustrophobia in Isca Greenfield-Sanders visions of suburbia.
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Aug. 7, 2006
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A QUIRKY COLLECTOR
by Charlie Finch
Museum founder Roy Neuberger was one of a kind.
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Aug. 1, 2006
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FEET OF CLAY
by Charlie Finch
Since when does money create masterpieces?
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July 14, 2006
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BABES IN LOYLAND
by Charlie Finch
German painter Rosa Loy’s female mythology.
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June 19, 2006
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The Great Picabia
by Charlie Finch
Francis Picabia is the star of "Dada" at MoMA.
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May 5, 2006
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OLD FRIENDS
by Charlie Finch
Notes on Jocelyn Hobbie, Lisa Ruyter and Kerri Scharlin.
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Apr. 4, 2006
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WORLD OF WOMEN
by Charlie Finch
"Bearings: The Female Figure" at PS122 Gallery in Manhattan.
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Mar. 10, 2006
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STOP THE INSANITY!
by Charlie Finch
Contemporary art’s disconnect from the real world.
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Dec. 20, 2005
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SIDESHOW BOB
by Charlie Finch
Robert Rauschenberg "Combines" opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Nov. 30, 2005
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SOPHIE’S CHOICES
by Charlie Finch
New "Zebra Stripe Paintings" by Sophie Matisse.
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Nov. 4, 2005
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TIRED OF ART?
by Charlie Finch
In search of surprises in a complacent contemporary art world.
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Oct. 20, 2005
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ELIZABETHTOWN
by Charlie Finch
Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Oct. 19, 2005
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SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
by Charlie Finch
Touring Chelsea on Saturday, looking to buy.
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Buffalo Soldier
by Charlie Finch
"Extreme Abstraction" at the Albright-Knox.
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